Autographic register



Nov. 8, 1927. 1,648,483

w. R. BARKER ET AL AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filegl Feb. 9, 1922 sion of the paper strips.

Patented Nov. 8, 1927.

- UNITED STATES PATENT yortica.

WALTER R. BARKER AND LOUIS JENSEN, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO UNITED AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER C0., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

A'UTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Application led February 9, 1922. Serial No. 535,293.

Our invention relates to autographic registers, and particularly vto that class of registers in which the strips of the paper records are provided with alining postholes at the end of each ticket printed on the strips, that come into registry with the friction rollers in order to stop the progress of the records.

One of these rollers is provided with a laterally movable collar that is brought into play when it is desired to expel the record. The object of the invention is to improve the means employed to manipulate this collar every time it is desired to start the expul- This we accomplish by the certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out, and as claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an end view of that end of an autographic register to which our improvements are applied with portions broken away.

Figure 2 is a similar view thereof showing parts thereon in different positions.

Figure 8 is an end view of portions thereof.

Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the feed roller and co-acting disk operating upon two strips of perforated paper.

Referring to the drawings, A, A, represent the side walls of the discharge end of an autographic register, and B represents a .reversely channeled transverse hood, the

closed hanged end edges of which are secured in any suitable manner to the top edges of the side walls A, A. A solid transverse roller C is' placed longitudinally in this hood, and the ends thereof arejournaled in the closed ends of the same.

The upper edges of the side walls, A, A, are provided with bearings, 2, 2, for -the tubular shaft 3, on which the friction devices for cooperating with the postholesin the paper record are mounted. These devices comprise sleeves, 5 and 6, respectively, that are placed `rone on each 'side of the center of length of the shaft 3,' and are each prof vided with corresponding circumferential separated flanges 7, 7, that are located so as to come in alinement with the postholes in the record strips that are passed through the register. v

The portion'r nearest the center of the shaft, has a collar 8 secured thereto, substantially as shown in the drawings. Immediately next the collar, on the right side thereof, wie surround the shaft with an exteriorly milled or otherwise roughcned annulus 9, and the interior bore of which is bevelled, and, of a greater diameter than the tubular shaft.

On the adjacent end of said tubular shaft,

we niount a cone 10, the exterior vof which corresponds to and is at the same angle as the interior bore of annulus 9. This cone has a reciprocal motion to and from collar 9, toward which it is kept bearing by means of a coil-spring 12, wound around the shaft, between the ends of the cone and the adjacent flange 7 of sleeve 5. This cone is designed to revolve with shaft 3, whose outer end is extended and has a crank 14 securely mounted thereon. The cone is secured by inea-ns of a transaxial pin 15, that extends through a longitudinal elongated slot 16 in the adjacent portion of the shaft 3and transaxially through an inner longitudinally extending solid shaft 17. This shaft 17 extends through the bore of the tubular shaft 3 and has itsouter end, 18, screw-threaded, and, when the cone engages the collar, and raises it so that it is concentric to the shaft, the screw-threaded end of said shaft 17 will project beyond the bearing in the sidewall and projecting upward therefrom. The

upper end of this arm 21 has a recess or notch 22 in its rear vertical edge, and the dip of this notch is `so shaped that when shaft 17 is in the position shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, it will engage the screwthreaded end 18 of the same, and hold it against its return to the position shown inv Figure 1 of the drawings. This arm 21 is kept pressing toward the rear of the register by means of a coil contraction spring 23, one end of which isattached to the upper end of said arin and the rearend to a'suitable stud secured in the sidewall A.

In operation arm 20 is pushedl down thus withdrawing an arm 21 from in front of the end of shaft 17. Shaft 17 moves out past arm 21 (spring 16 forces it out). Cone 10 is fastened to shaft 17 by means of the transverse pin 15, and as spring 16 pushes against the end of cone 10, it causes the cone to engage annulus 9 and move said annulus, transversely into position, concentric to the axis of the tubular shaft and into contact with the upper feed roller C. Handle 14 is then turned and causes theannulus to engage and bear against the periphery of the solid roller C, and starts the expulsion'of `the record strips.

The end of shaft 17 engaged by arm 21 has a thread cut in it. *Arm 21 also has a thread in recess 22 `that engages with the thread on shaft 17 and spring 23 tends to draw one into the other.

As handle 14 is rotated it rotates shaft 17 (pin 15 in the cone passes through the tubular shaft 4), and as shaft 17 rotates it moves back into the tubular shaft, due to the engagement of the threaded .portions of arm 2l and shaft 17 thereby withdrawing cone 10 from annulus-9 and disengaging the latter from the paper strips.

When the threaded portion of shaft 17 has been moved back clear of arm 21 arm 21 shoots past the end ofshaft 17 and thus keeps the shaft from again coming out of the tube and keeps the cone from engaging with the collar until arm 2O is again pushed down., y

When the arm 21 moves down its side bears against the end of the solid shaftl 17 and holds the cone in`\ disengagement from the collar 9 while the flanges 7, 7, which in the meantime have engaged the paper stri s, will feed them out of the register until t e postholes in said strips come into registry with the segments of the flanges that contact the .roller C, whereupon the outward movement of the strips will stop. This action is both collective and individual with the strips and lfeeds the. same until the apertures, in the respective strips are in was at we clalm as new 1s:

1. An autographic register comprising .a l

transverse upper discharge roller, a tubular shaft, an annulus mounted on and having a central openin larger than said shaft, and a `reciprocab e cone concentric and revolvable with said shaft, and means for reciprocating said cone.

2. An autographc register comprising an upper transverse discharge roller, a tubular shaft, an annulus mounted on `and having a central opening largerthan said shaft, a solid shaft wlthin said hollow shaft, a reciprocable cone concentric and revolvable with the same and secured thereto by means of a transverse pin extending through a..

longitudinal slot in the tubular shaft, and means for reciprocating said solid shaft.

3. An autographic register comprising an upper transverse discharge roller, a tubular shaft, an annulus mounted on and having a central opening larger than said shaft, a

solid shaft within said hollow shaft, a'

reciprocable cone concentric and revolvable with said shafts and secured thereto by means of a transverse pin extended through a longitudinal slot in the tubular shaft, means for reciprocating said solid shaft, and a coiled expansion spring pressing said cone toward said annulus.

4. An autographic register comprising an upper transverse discharge roller, a shaft, separated -circumferential flanges mounted on said shaft in alinement with the postholes formed in the paper strips, an annulus of substantially the same diameter as said flanges having a central opening of greater diameter than the portion of the shaft upon which it is mounted, a reciprocable cone that engages the central opening of the annulus, and means for actuating said cone.

5. An autographiclregister comprising an upper transverse discharge roller, a tubular shaft, separated circumferential flanges mounted on said tubular shaft in alinement with the postholes formed in the paper strips, an annulus of substantially the same diameter as said flanges having a central opening of greater diameter than the portion of the tubular shaft upon which it is mounted,'a reciprocable cone that engages the central opening of the annulus, a solid shaft seated in the bore of said tubular shaft,

ka transverse pin that extends from said cone vto the solid shafta through a longitudinally annulus mounted on and having a centra1\ opening larger than said shaft, a reciprocablecone concentric and revolvable with said shafts, means for reciprocating said inner shaft, and a coiled expansionspring pressing said cone toward said annulus.

7. An autographic register comprising an lln upper transverse discharge roller, a tubular shaft, an annulus mounted on and having a central 'opening larger than said shaft, a solidlshaft within said hollow shaft, a reciprocable cone .concentric and revolvable with said shaftsand secured to said solid shaft by means of a transverse pin extended througha longitudinal slot in the tubular shaft, means for reciprocating saidl solid shaft, a coiled expansion spring pressing said cone toward said annulus, a transverse rock-shaft adjacent said tubular shaft having an arm thatv bears endwise against the solid shaft when the cone is out of engagellao lao

ment with the annulus, and is made to engage the same laterally when said cone engages said annulus.

8. An autographic register comprising an upper transverse discharge roller, a tubular roller, separate circumferential Hanges mounted on said shaft in alinement with postholes formed in the paper strips, an annulus of substantially the same diameter as said flanges having a central opening of greater diameter than the portion of the shaft upon which it is mounted, a reciprocable cone that engages the central opening of said annulus, a solid shaft seated in the bore of said tubular shaft, a transverse pin that extends through a longitudinal'slot in said tubular shaft and connects the cone to the solid shaft, a coil expansion spring that pushes the cone into engagement with the annulus, a transverse rockshaft adjacent said tubular shaft, and an armprojecting from one end thereof that bears endWise against the solid shaft when the cone is out of engagement With the annulus and engages it transverselyr when said cone engages the annulus.

9. The combination in an autographic register With feed rollers, one of which is.

tubular, a shaft reciprocable Within the tubular roller, and a paper strip starter actuated by said shaft, of means for moving said shaft longitudinally.

10. The combination in an autographic register With feed rollers, one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable Within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the said roller, and a paper strip starter actuated by said shaft, of means engaging the outer end of the shaft and adapted to move it longitudinally.

11. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers, one of Which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable Within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller, and a cone for centering said collar that is secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of means designed to reciprocate said shaft.

12. In an autographic register, the combination with feed rollers, a reciprocable shaft Within the bore of one of said rollers, having a screw-threaded end extending beyond its bearings, an annular starter mounted upon and normally eccentric to said shaft, a cone-shaped head secured to said reciprocable shaft and operable to engage and center said starter, of a device that engages the screw-threaded end of said shaft and returns it to its original position, and means for actuating said device.

13. In an autographic register, the combination With the feedy rollers, a reciprocable' shaft Within the bore of one of said rollers, having a screw-threaded end extending beyond its bearings, an annular starter mounted upon and normally eccentric to said shaft, a cone-shaped head secured to said reciprocable shaft and operable to engage and center said starter, of an oscillatory device that engages the screw-threaded end of said shaft means for actuating said device.

14. In an autographic register, the combination with the feed rollers, a reciprocable shaft Within the bore of one of said rollers, having a screw-threaded end extending beyond its bearings, an annular starter mounted upon and normally eccentric to said shaft, a cone-shaped head secured to said recipro cable shaft and operable to engage and center said starter, of a movable arm having a segmentally threaded recess that engages the screw-threaded end of said shaft and returns it to its original position, and means for actuating said arm.

15. In an autographic register, the combination with the feed rollers, a reciprocable shaft Within the bore of one of said rollers' having a screwethreaded end extending beyond its bearings, an annular starter mounted upon and normally eccentric to said shaft, a cone-shaped head secured to said reciprocable shaft and operable to engage and center said starter, of a manually raised movable arm having a segmentally threaded recess that engages the screw-threaded end of said shaft and returns it to its original position, and means for actuating said arm.

16. In an autographic register, the combination with a shaft having thereon feed rollers, a reciprocable shaft carried by the first mentioned shaft and provided with a threaded portion, a movable member which engages the threaded portion of the reciprocatory shaft to effect longitudinal movement thereof, and means for eecting a return of said shaft.

17. In` an autographic register, the combination of feed rollers, a shaft mounted for reci procation with respect to one of said feed rollers, said shaft having an end portion Which extends beyond the end of said feed roller, a strip engaging and feeding means mounted to be normally loose with respect to one of said feed rollers, and a cone-shaped head associated with said shaft and adapted to position said strip-engaging and feeding means concentric with the axis of its supporting roller.

18. The combination in an autographic register with feed rollers one of which is tubular, a shaft reciprocable Within the tubular roller and havngone end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular roller,

and a cone for centering said collar that is' secured to and reciprocated by said shaft, of a lever designed to permit the reclprocation of said shaft.

`and returns it to its original position, and

19. The combination in an auto register with feed rollers `one of w ic is tubular, a shaft reciprocable within the tubular roller and having one end extending beyond the end of said roller, an annular starter collar loose on said tubular collar, and a cone centering Said collar that is secured vto and reciprocated by said shaft, of a rocking lever designed to permit the reciproeation of said shaft and an eccentric device` for rocking said lever.'

20. In an autographic register, the combination with a shaft having thereon feed rollers, a reciprocal shaft carried by the rst mentioned shaft and provided with a screwthreaded extended end, a movable member which engages the screw threaded end of the reciprocatory shaft to effect longitudinal a hic movement thereof, and means for eiecting a return of said shaft. t l

21. In an autbgraphic register, thel comhina-tion of feed rollers, a shaft mounted for reeiprocation within one of the feed rollers, said shaft having an end portion which extends beyond the end ofthe feed roller in which it is partially housed, a strip engaging and feeding means loosely mounted to be engaged by and positioned to be concentric with the axis of its supporting roller by a cone shaped head associated wlth the reciprocatory supporting' shaft.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 30th day of January, 1922.

Louis JENSEN. WALTER R. BARKER 

